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Flood Watch 2, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 8, 202314 counties in Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flood watch at Jul 8, 2023, 1:35 PM CDT for 14 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 19 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 8, 2023, 1:35 PM CDT (18:35 UTC)
Expired
Jul 9, 2023, 8:46 AM CDT
In force
19 hr
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Flood severity
None

Counties Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 54 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2023-07-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 657 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2023-07-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 8 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
657 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-89 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
795 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
74 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.2

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flood watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flood watch went out at Jul 8, 12:43 PM CDT, 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 12:43 PM CDT, 52 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 8, 1:37 AM CDT, 11 hours 58 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
137 AM CDT Sat Jul 8 2023

KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-091200-
Trego-Ellis-Scott-Lane-Ness-Rush-Hamilton-Kearny-Finney-Hodgeman-
Pawnee-Stafford-Stanton-Grant-Haskell-Gray-Ford-Edwards-Kiowa-
Pratt-Morton-Stevens-Seward-Meade-Clark-Comanche-Barber-
137 AM CDT Sat Jul 8 2023 /1237 AM MDT Sat Jul 8 2023/

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of central Kansas,
south central Kansas, southwest Kansas, and west central Kansas.

.DAY ONE...Today and Tonight

Afternoon and evening storms will be possible across western Kansas.
Hail, damaging winds, and localized flooding are the main threats.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday

Bouts of thunderstorms will be possible during this period. Strong
to severe storms cannot be ruled out.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation may be needed this afternoon and tonight.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 7, 7:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade24 min
Jul 7, 8:27 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCMeade33 min
Jul 7, 9:55 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCPratt65 min
Jul 7, 11:47 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCSeward28 min
Jul 8, 2:24 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCHamilton51 min
Jul 8, 3:06 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCBarber39 min
Jul 8, 7:06 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningDDCMeade38 hr

Nearby

Flood Watches in Kansas, 2023Every flood watch in 2023

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.